| suspected thief | 3.03 | Foreign troops rescued three suspected thieves Tuesday. | ||
| petty thief | 2.96 | Others were petty thieves. | ||
| would-be thief | 2.11 | Several would-be thieves have been reported electrocuted. | ||
| alleged thief | 1.18 | The alleged thief was arrested. | ||
| convicted thief | 1.12 | Convicted thieves have a limb amputated. | ||
| professional thief | 1.05 | The hotel suspected a professional thief. | ||
| armed thief | 0.66 | -- If you are confronted by an armed thief, hand over your belongings without resistance. | ||
| potential thief | 0.66 | But he can also scare away potential thieves. | ||
| young thief | 0.59 | Norton is the young aspiring thief who has thought up the project, | ||
| unidentified thief | 0.46 | Unidentified thieves entered the library by sawing through metal bars on ground floor windows. | ||
| common thief | 0.39 | So he is a fraud, a common thief in other words. | ||
| master thief | 0.39 | An insurance investigator persuades her boss that only she can set the trap to catch a master thief. | ||
| the thief | 0.39 | After the heist, the four thieves go to China. | ||
| small-time thief | 0.33 | Police experts say most of the robbers are small-time thieves or drug addicts encouraged by the publicity. | ||
| chicken thief | 0.26 | That rage is being taken out on outlaws as simple as chicken thieves. | ||
| fleeing thief | 0.26 | But the police say he went too far when he shot the fleeing thief in the foot. | ||
| street thief | 0.26 | The princess Jasmine defies her father by going after the street thief Aladdin. |